The Tycoon Meets His Match by Barbara Benedict

Author:Barbara Benedict [Benedict, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Category
ISBN: 0373248725
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2007-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

S o now he was in an amusement park, Rhys thought as they barreled down the highway at ninety-plus miles per hour. Call it Trae’s Wild Ride, a roller coaster that took him up, down and every possible which way with no time to draw a decent breath. One minute, she had him so rattled he wanted to wring her lovely neck, and in the next…

He couldn’t figure her out. Worse, he was finding it increasingly difficult to figure himself out when he was around her. How had he let himself get convinced to spend another torturous day in this car? This silent-as-a-tomb car, he amended, Trae apparently having opted to ignore his presence for the past few hours.Trae kept staring ahead, concentrating on her driving, acting as if he wasn’t even in the car with her. As if getting too close to him might lead to serious contamination.

He’d been content to let this go on for the first hundred miles or so, figuring that the less said between them the better, but this was getting ridiculous. Not that he missed her chatter, mind you. He didn’t need any more chiding, either, but there were times, like now, when he had to know what was going on in her pretty little head.

For instance, did she keep flashing back, like he did, to the night before?

As if to shake him back to his senses, the car hit another bump in the road. They both winced, though Trae continued to keep her gaze on the road ahead.

“Maybe we should check again on the airline strike. I can get us tickets—”

“With what? You planning on hocking your broken watch?”

He couldn’t help but glance at his bare wrist, any more than he could stop himself from correcting her. “Now that I’ve found my wallet and I no longer have to report my stolen cards….”

“Whoa.” That got her attention—and not in a good way. “Back up a minute, Paxton,” she said, fixing her piercing green gaze on him. “Josh found your wallet?”

Rhys wished he had kept his mouth shut. “If you must know, I scoured the car again during our last stop. I found it wedged between the seat and middle console. Must have slipped out of my pocket. I don’t know how I missed it before,” he added sheepishly.

“I knew it!” She pounded a hand on the wheel. “You owe poor Josh an apology.”

He might have to endure her I-told-you-so, but he didn’t need to add on any more humiliation. “I can’t see why poor Josh would want anything more to do with me.”

She glanced over at him again, tilting her head and frowning. “Wait a minute. When did you find this out?”

“I checked the car while you got gas.” He’d also checked his messages, hoping he, too, would have heard from Lucie. He hadn’t. The fact that she’d called Trae instead still rankled.

“And when were you planning on telling me? Never?”

A good estimate, actually. “I can’t see how it concerns you.”

He watched her stiffen.

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